US Plant Patent PP5096
Black sweet cherry
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 8, 2001. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.
The record
- Patent number
- PP5096
- Filed
- October 8, 1981
- Granted
- August 30, 1983
- Expires
- October 8, 2001
- Assignee
- HILLTOP ORCHARDS & NURSERIES I
- Inventor
- RYNBRANDT CECIL; RYNBRANDT JOHN
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
This invention relates to a new and distinct variety of black sweet cherry which occurred as a chance seedling in a cultivated area, which was a cherry orchard having predominately Schmidt black sweet cherry trees growing around it. The new variety most nearly resembles Schmidt in size and appearance. It is distinctively characterized, in comparison to Schmidt, by at least seven days earlier maturity, a shorter harvest period and leaves that are shorter and narrower.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of black sweet cherry tree substantially as described and illustrated in this application.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5096 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.